Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Imagination Agreeable Because Before Curiosity Everything Fills Gives Idea New Pleasure Possessed Raises Soul Surprise Uncommon Which

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